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I know Red Gate has such a product, but I'd rather not have to pay for something which, in my opinion, should be built into SSMS. Thanks!

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I totally agree with you on this. Sadly I never found any plugins that you are talking about. So, I moved to tools from EMS SQL Server Manager and TOAD for SQL server. I think the SQL Server 2008 Studio has intellisense but in the express edition, i found it to be seriously lacking.

Perpetualcoder
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Aqua Data Studio is free if you develop for opensource. It works with most databases and has intelisense.

Richard L
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One of my developers swears by Sql Admin Studio by Simego , I was about to buy SQLPrompt from RedGate (very good but pricey) when she mentioned it. It isn't free but at $29.95 it also does schema and data differencing between two servers.

I'm going to try it out when I get chance.

DaveEHS